Averroes Quotes on God
Averroes, known in Arabic as Ibn Rushd, was a 12th-century Andalusian Arab philosopher, jurist, and physician of the Islamic Golden Age, the most influential medieval commentator on Aristotle. This page collects quotes attributed to Averroes on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Averroes:
“If reason and revelation appear to disagree, it is the surface meaning of the revealed text that must be reinterpreted.”
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Attributed to Averroes:
“Philosophy is the friend and milk-sister of religion.”
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“The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul (dhihn) constructs in movement.”
As cited in "Being and Language in Averroes' “Tahafut At-Tahafut” (2003) by Massimo Campanini -
“Philosophers do not claim that God does not know particulars ; they rather claim that He does not know them the way humans do. God knows particulars as their Creator whereas humans know them as a privileged creations of God might know them.”
Attributed to Averroes in Voices of Islam: Voices of change (2007) by Vincent J. Cornell, p. 35 -
“The Law teaches that the universe was invented and created by God , and that it did not come into being by chance or by itself.”
Part 1: The Creation of the Universe; Opening sentence